Social perspectives on deforestation, land use change, and economic development in an expanding agricultural frontier in Northern Argentina
The idea that agricultural production and environmental conservation are almost incompatible has divided nature protectionists, advocates for indigenous peoples, and agricultural producers. Discourses seem to cluster along strong, usually dichotomous alternatives such as “production versus conservat...
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| author | Huaranca, Laura Liliana Iribarnegaray, Martín Alejandro Albesa, Federico Volante, Jose Norberto Brannstrom, Christian Seghezzo, Lucas |
| author_browse | Albesa, Federico Brannstrom, Christian Huaranca, Laura Liliana Iribarnegaray, Martín Alejandro Seghezzo, Lucas Volante, Jose Norberto |
| author_facet | Huaranca, Laura Liliana Iribarnegaray, Martín Alejandro Albesa, Federico Volante, Jose Norberto Brannstrom, Christian Seghezzo, Lucas |
| author_sort | Huaranca, Laura Liliana |
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| description | The idea that agricultural production and environmental conservation are almost incompatible has divided nature protectionists, advocates for indigenous peoples, and agricultural producers. Discourses seem to cluster along strong, usually dichotomous alternatives such as “production versus conservation”. This apparently hegemonic “common sense” is generally promoted by enviromental non-governmental organizations and groups of large-scale agricultural producers, and it is constantly reproduced and exacerbated by the media, despite its negative consequences for social consensus and policy making. We present here results of a study in an expanding agricultural frontier in northern Argentina in which we identified and described social perspectives on deforestation, land use change, and economic development. Following an empirically based, quali-quantitative approach (Q methodology), we found that actual social perspectives did not conform to a simplistic production versus conservation dichotomy. Our case study suggests that some environmental governance processes may consolidate dichotomous debates that favor the interests of powerful groups of stakeholders. Knowledge on social perspectives could help understand complex social-environmental issues and help policy makers take decisions in the direction of more sustainable and inclusive land use practices. |
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| spelling | INTA57102019-08-28T11:25:12Z Social perspectives on deforestation, land use change, and economic development in an expanding agricultural frontier in Northern Argentina Huaranca, Laura Liliana Iribarnegaray, Martín Alejandro Albesa, Federico Volante, Jose Norberto Brannstrom, Christian Seghezzo, Lucas Argentina Deforestación Utilización de la Tierra Desarrollo Económico Salta Condiciones Sociales Deforestation Land Use Economic Development Social Conditions Región Chaqueña Chaco Region The idea that agricultural production and environmental conservation are almost incompatible has divided nature protectionists, advocates for indigenous peoples, and agricultural producers. Discourses seem to cluster along strong, usually dichotomous alternatives such as “production versus conservation”. This apparently hegemonic “common sense” is generally promoted by enviromental non-governmental organizations and groups of large-scale agricultural producers, and it is constantly reproduced and exacerbated by the media, despite its negative consequences for social consensus and policy making. We present here results of a study in an expanding agricultural frontier in northern Argentina in which we identified and described social perspectives on deforestation, land use change, and economic development. Following an empirically based, quali-quantitative approach (Q methodology), we found that actual social perspectives did not conform to a simplistic production versus conservation dichotomy. Our case study suggests that some environmental governance processes may consolidate dichotomous debates that favor the interests of powerful groups of stakeholders. Knowledge on social perspectives could help understand complex social-environmental issues and help policy makers take decisions in the direction of more sustainable and inclusive land use practices. EEA Salta Fil: Huaranca, Laura Liliana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Salta. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional. Universidad Nacional de Salta. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Física. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional; Argentina Fil: Iribarnegaray, Martín Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Salta. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional. Universidad Nacional de Salta. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Física. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional; Argentina Fil: Albesa, Federico. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Salta. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional. Universidad Nacional de Salta. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Física. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional; Argentina Fil: Volante, Jose Norberto. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Salta; Argentina Fil: Brannstrom, Christian. Texas A&M University. Department of Geography; Estados Unidos Fil: Seghezzo, Lucas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Salta. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional. Universidad Nacional de Salta. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Física. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional; Argentina 2019-08-28T11:19:30Z 2019-08-28T11:19:30Z 2019 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/5710 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800918319827?via%3Dihub 0921-8009 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106424 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess application/pdf Elsevier Ecological economics 165 : 106424. (November 2019) |
| spellingShingle | Argentina Deforestación Utilización de la Tierra Desarrollo Económico Salta Condiciones Sociales Deforestation Land Use Economic Development Social Conditions Región Chaqueña Chaco Region Huaranca, Laura Liliana Iribarnegaray, Martín Alejandro Albesa, Federico Volante, Jose Norberto Brannstrom, Christian Seghezzo, Lucas Social perspectives on deforestation, land use change, and economic development in an expanding agricultural frontier in Northern Argentina |
| title | Social perspectives on deforestation, land use change, and economic development in an expanding agricultural frontier in Northern Argentina |
| title_full | Social perspectives on deforestation, land use change, and economic development in an expanding agricultural frontier in Northern Argentina |
| title_fullStr | Social perspectives on deforestation, land use change, and economic development in an expanding agricultural frontier in Northern Argentina |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social perspectives on deforestation, land use change, and economic development in an expanding agricultural frontier in Northern Argentina |
| title_short | Social perspectives on deforestation, land use change, and economic development in an expanding agricultural frontier in Northern Argentina |
| title_sort | social perspectives on deforestation land use change and economic development in an expanding agricultural frontier in northern argentina |
| topic | Argentina Deforestación Utilización de la Tierra Desarrollo Económico Salta Condiciones Sociales Deforestation Land Use Economic Development Social Conditions Región Chaqueña Chaco Region |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/5710 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800918319827?via%3Dihub https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106424 |
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